Alice vs Alice (pt 2 of 6)

........ Previously in the Zenescope's insightful take on the little girl known as Alice all we knew was she had fallen into a strange world where she had reached through by way of 

a Rabbit hole. When she had started hearing sounds of whispers  that turn out to be more than voices from her soul and rather from her own noggin she knew that at first glance that she had to let her curiousness guide her especially 

 

when she decided a dream is always better than dealing with the reality of the real world.......  And now she maybe regretting that very choice when all of the animals wanna do is treat her as their next little ham on rye wherever she turns..... We now will follow her through a place known as Wonderland in part two of Raven Gregory's twisted take of Alice in Wonderland! Here is the cover to the second part of his yarn of the six part comic 

.  There is one big thing beside Alice's quest of staying sane, that happens throughout this issue and that is the little mystery of just whose pawn piece is the White Rabbit

  , for he seems to suffer as much as Alice herself does as he brings Wonderland's inhabitants together for a party. He happen to have the Chershire's help in finding Alice for the creature known as 

Jabberwocky. Alice in the meanwhile, is learning other effects of Mushrooms in this place known as Wonderland as she convinces the walrus not to have her as his meal 

, than just what the  White Rabbit did to Jabby in issue #1 which was he used it to put him to sleep. She also learns how the walrus was a scientist named Tiberius and how he like her saw a rabbit while finding out this dreamworld they are in, while 

 

going with him to actually find some food to eat. It is when she ask him about the Rabbit that things go let just say a wee bit insane for she hides in closet while the walrus is killed by a unknown man who the walrus called a friend. Alice herself comes out of the closet and picks up the man's mallet and beats his right leg out of commission, she runs away 

 ,while the man is cut to pieces by Chershy. To any place that might be safe.......  

Now on to the original story called Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, in part one I told you all of Alice falling into the rabbit hole into Wonderland and took you up to the first three chapters of the story. Which when she is finally in the area of the door that has the garden behind it, she is alone again for she talks of he cat to animals birds, and mouse, and even a  a crab
 











(don't ask me what that sea animal would fear from a feline....) and not down a rabbit's home looking at a set of doors as a way back into the real world. When I first wrote about "A new take on miss Alice" was when I had started falling into Wonderland myself. I went to Branes and Nobles and after getting this comic trade on 

that given Saturday which twas he last Saturday in July I had got this copy 
of Lewis Carroll's original story the very next day. So for part two of the original story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland will consist of chapters four through six. So enough with recapping of how my Alice fix got started alright......

In chapter four Alice sees the White Rabbit for the actual second time as he comes to her again he calls her "Mary Ann" and wonders why she is mistaken for his housemaid, while he is looking now for the Duchess, he has Alice help him fetch his white gloves and fan at his abode which gets Alice to thinking of yet once again her feline pet known as Dinah ordering her around and though she doesn't want do it, it is still here childlike mind that must know what the rabbit end goal is. She follows to where he guides her which is a little house that has a door with bright brass plate with the name "W.RABBIT" engraved upon it, she enters the house and runs upstairs to find the gloves and the fan before she would hopefully NOT run into the real Mary Ann.(One may wonder if Marry Ann, could have been a girlfriend that Dodgson knew before he took up the pen name Lewis Carroll I'm just curious as to if anyone who dwells deeply into the writing of this may come to that bit of insight or maybe it's just me, because in the Disney animated film the rabbit also calls her Mary Ann so your left wondering if she is real at all is what I'm getting at?) So once Alice is the room of the rabbit's abode she finds not only what she's looking for but also on the very table as well another little bottle that stood near the looking glass, (as to if this scene itself point out the title of Alice's second book I'm not really sure on that, but when I read the text to me that just instantly popped into my head I just wanted all to know that! The main difference of this very bottle and the one that stood on the three legged glass table from when the story starts is this one doesn't have a label on it that says "DRINK ME" so because every time something interesting happens to her when she consumes the liquids in this world she decides to gulp it down and when she does she grows alright so big that she ends up struck in the very room she now can't get out of at all, and she was sad again but in the way of fear as the rabbit and his friends which by how they are described are a gofer, a lizard, try to help the rabbit get the little girl who is a thousand feet tall in height out of his house they or rather the rabbit use logic that at last perhaps they should burn down his home. Alice told them she would sick her cat on them if she did  get burned up but this time the animals went scarred for what fear could a feline strike in these animals.Alice heard the rabbit say "A barrow ful will do to start with" She was more perplexed now as to what they were planing to get her out of the house, and realized from her size they were firing little stones at her which turn out to be small cakes she ate them and shrunk in size again to what she was when she first ate the cakes from before she fell into her own saltwater tears from before. Now she went off without thanking these many animals of helping her out of her plight, and headed off into the woods and into eventually the lovely garden she wanted to be apart of when she came across a huge puppy who wanted nothing to do but play, she pick up a tiny stick after hiding from him because she thought he would eat her (boy all the animals of Wonderland weather in comic form or narrative form want to eat poor little Alice did you notice that too.) After wearing the pooch away from her Alice, was soon to meet a very thoughtful changing animal character next. At the start of chapter five of the original Alice's Adventures in Wonderland the little girl known as Alice meets a as I said just above a animal that changes forms, now I won't put you through the brain wracking search of guessing how many animals do tend to go through a metamorphosis to a new appearance of form as well 
, it happen to be that the very first changing animal little Alice meets up with in the outskirts of the garden is the Caterpillar (which is the one reason a lot people don't read this book to children today) all in all of all the animals Alice must relate with in wonderland is the most scariest for he represents a part of the real world that people wish be forgotten: Drugs.  In the middle of the two them chatting about size being of importance Alice tells the caterpillar a poem she recalls of that she remembers when he had just asked her whom she was it's as if the caterpillar in a way is not only her guide of wisdom before she finds it herself, but he is the only one to give her full attention. The poem by the way is about what the mouse was explaining to all the other animals that came out of the saltwater tears of Alice's own making when she had first entered a dark hallway with many doors in it from chapter two: Which was about politics of  William the conquer, but this time it was from Al;ice's thougts and not someone esle's. The caterpillar says she is out of line because he likes his own way of thinking ...... but offer her a easier way to change her size with either end of a mushroom, she just has to remember which side will make her big and which side will make her small and besides it's better than marked or unmarked bottle of mystery liquid that shrink her size and cakes that make her ginormous. She then goes in search of the rabbit again but first finds two odd dressed animals of a fish and a frog looking for the Dutchess and even though we still don't know who the Dutchess is we know why the rabbit is looking for her in part and that is she whoever she is is invited to play a game of croquet with the queen in the sixth chapter titled "Pig & Pepper". Alice laughs and giggles as she sees the two water related creatures get their hair pieces entangled for both are wearing powdered hair that curled all over each head of the two water biased animals but she was hiding in the woods at the time because of her fear of them hearing her. After the fish leaves she goes to knock on the door and before she does the frog is there asking her riddles, it at this point that Alice was thinking to herself "ARE ALL the creatures I encounter crazy" The frog gave her a choice of either waiting outside or going into the house while he waited for nothing to do, Alice goes into the house and meets the said Dutchess whom is making soup of some kind and ask Alice about the Cheshire-Cat and something about a Pig. Then the Dutchess when Alice responded "what is a Cheshire -Cat?"didn't answer Alice's inquiry right away the cook who was making soup for the Dutchess and her baby that she was holding started throwing everything from fire irons then saucepans, plates and finally dishes. As these came towards her the Dutchess took no notice whatsoever, this worried Alice and she grabbed the baby not know what it was and ran into the woods......it was then up on a tree branch in the woods that she met 

the Cheshire-Cat that the Dutchess spoke of? When the cat was done asking her questions of such as if she would  be playing at the Queen's game Alice had just found the baby she had saved turned out to be that of a pig. She responded to the cat's question very politely that "I'd love to, but I haven't been invited yet." The cat then gives her another thing to ponder over as it disappeared from it's tail first to it's smiling grin.It is after this that she believes she is headed toward the March Hair's house talking to herself as she approaches "Suppose it should be raving mad after all! I almost wish I'd gone to see the Hatter instead!"                                            
Will things be "RAVING MAD" at a certain party???? Be here or with a special TOP HAT to find out better yet just bring the Tea and see for yourselves?  
To be continued.......